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President Lee Jae-myung speaks while presiding over a meeting of senior secretaries at Cheong Wa Dae on the 20th of this month. Cheong Wa Dae Press Corps<\/p>\nPresident Lee Jae-myung speaks while presiding over a meeting of senior secretaries at Cheong Wa Dae on the 20th of this month. Cheong Wa Dae Press Corps<\/p>\n
President Lee Jae-myung’s job approval rating has edged up to 45% after falling to a post-inauguration low of 44%, drawing even with his disapproval rating, a new poll showed.<\/p>\n
Gallup Korea surveyed 1,004 eligible voters aged 18 and over nationwide from the 18th to the 20th and released the results on the 21st. Of those surveyed, 45% assessed Lee’s performance in office positively, while 45% assessed it negatively. Lee’s approval rating had hit a post-inauguration low of 44% in the second week of August.<\/p>\n
The stalled rating is attributed to housing policy, the push to establish a national military academy and recent remarks on North Korea by U.S. President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
Among respondents who assessed Lee’s performance negatively, 28% cited housing policy as the reason. The economy and livelihood issues followed at 12%, with defense, security and North Korea policy at 7%. Housing has been the most frequently cited reason for negative assessments since the fourth week of July.<\/p>\n
In party support, both the Democratic Party of Korea and the People Power Party recorded the same ratings as in the previous survey. The Democratic Party stood at 41% and the People Power Party at 25%. Among moderates, the Democratic Party drew 39% support and the People Power Party 20%. The Rebuilding Korea Party recorded 3%, the Reform Party 2% and the Progressive Party 1%, while 28% said they support no party.<\/p>\n
On the domestic stock market, which has swung sharply in recent weeks, 37% of respondents expected the index to rise over the next year. Another 29% expected it to fall and 18% expected no change.<\/p>\n
By contrast, 36% expected the domestic economy to worsen over the next year, 4 percentage points higher than those who expected it to improve.<\/p>\n
The survey was conducted through computer-assisted telephone interviews using virtual mobile numbers randomly drawn from lists provided by the country’s three mobile carriers. The response rate was 10.0%, and the margin of error was plus or minus 3.1 percentage points at a 95% confidence level. Further details are available on the website of the National Election Survey Deliberation Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Lee Jae-myung speaks while presiding over a meeting of senior secretaries at Cheong Wa Dae on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1148,13089,17065,31,65307,146,187,191,33],"class_list":["post-127344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-korea","tag-democratic-party-of-korea","tag-gallup-korea-poll","tag-housing-policy","tag-korea","tag-korea-party-support","tag-lee-jae-myung","tag-lee-jae-myung-approval-rating","tag-people-power-party","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}